stool

CEFRB1

/stuːl/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A seat without a back or arms.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.

Examples

  • A man came in and sat on the stool next to her.

  • A woman was sitting on a stool in a bar.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /stʉl/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A seat for one person without a back or armrests.

  2. A footstool.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To produce stool: to defecate.

More examples

In context

  • If you stand on this stool, you can reach the top of the closet.

  • I provided the doctor with stool samples.

  • The plants stooled out well, and yielded a heavy cutting of rather tough cane. In its young state it should make good silage.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English stool, from Old English stōl (“chair, seat”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōl, from Proto-Germanic *stōlaz (“chair”), from Proto-Indo-European *stoh₂los (“frame, rack, stand”), from *steh₂- (“to stand”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian stuul, stölj, Stööl (“chear”), Saterland Frisian Stoul (“chear”), West Frisian stoel (“chair, seat”), Dutch stoel (“chair”), German Stuhl (“chair”), Low German Stohl (“chair”), Luxembourgish Stull (“chair”), Vilamovian śtül (“chair”), Yiddish שתוהל (shsuhl), שטול (shtul, “chair”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish stol (“chair”), Faroese stólur (“chair”), Icelandic stóll (“chair”), Crimean Gothic stul (“seat”), Go...